Human trafficking

Polis defends ICE data release as criminal investigation matter, but documents raise doubts

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Legal pressure is mounting against Democratic Gov. Jared Polis after revelations that he ordered state officials to comply with an ICE subpoena and hand over personal data of undocumented children in Colorado to federal immigration agents.

The latest: Colorado WINS — the union representing more than 27,000 state workers — civil rights group Towards Justice and labor organization Colorado AFL-CIO announced Monday they’re joining as plaintiffs on a whistleblower lawsuit filed last week by Scott Moss, a senior labor official in Polis’ administration.

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Trump Admin reforms ‘unaccompanied alien children’ policy to prevent trafficking

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President Donald Trump’s deputies have reformed the Democrats’ 2008 “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UAC) program to shrink migrant smuggling by labor traffickers and by illegal migrant parents.

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Child trafficking educational summit in Colorado Springs to present solutions

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Each year thousands of children in the United States are preyed upon, exploited, held captive, forced into labor and sold into sex and human trafficking markets. And with some half a million unaccompanied minor immigrants crossing the southern border and being released to adult sponsors under what critics call a fairly lax system, more are ending up in the same situation.

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